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/sˈərkjəlˌeɪtɪŋ lˈaɪbrˌɛri/ Listen

verb

Circulate v. i. (past & past part. circulated; pres. part. circulating)

To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.

To pass from place to place, from person to person, or from hand to hand; to be diffused; as, money circulates; a story circulates.

Circulating decimal. See Decimal.

Circulating library, a library whose books are loaned to the public, usually at certain fixed rates.

Circulating medium. See Medium.

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Etymology of 'Circulating library'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Circulating library" Quotes from Famous Books

... has placed in charge of the state library, to select the reading for our schools, C. E. Strangeland. He is telling our school children what to read. I found in our state library, the other day, a bundle of books, all ready to be sent to one of our country schools—a circulating library. If the farmers of North Dakota could have seen what I saw, they would have come to Bismarck and cleaned out the whole Socialist gang. Here are the titles of some of those ...

— The Red Conspiracy • Joseph J. Mereto

... Diogenes. "What you don't know would fill a circulating library. Well—I lived in a tub. Now, if I believed in envy, I suppose you think I'd be envious of people who live in brownstone fronts with ...

— A House-Boat on the Styx • John Kendrick Bangs

... can read straight through what he has already bought—is a supposition alike preposterous and unreasonable. "Surely you have far more books than you can read," is sometimes the inane remark of the barbarian who gets his books, volume by volume, from some circulating library or reading club, and reads them all through, one after the other, with a dreary dutifulness, that he may be sure that he has got the value of ...

— The Book-Hunter - A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author • John Hill Burton

... "People called and stayed to lunch in a friendly way." "One was sure of some one at afternoon tea." "What with croquet and archery in the Gardens, meeting friends on the Esplanade, concerts at the Rooms, shopping, and changing one's novels at the circulating library, one really never had a dull hour." So said "everybody;" and one or two people, including Major Buller, added that "One never had an ...

— Six to Sixteen - A Story for Girls • Juliana Horatia Ewing

... that keeps girls in the schoolroom reading simple stories, without reading Scott and Shakespeare and Spenser, and then hands them over to the unexplored recesses of the Circulating Library, has been shown to be the most frivolizing that can be devised." She sets forth as the result of her experience that a good novel, especially a romantic one, read at twelve or fourteen, is really a ...

— The Art of the Story-Teller • Marie L. Shedlock

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